Clothes-line support.



J. JACOBS.

CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT.

APPLIOATION IILED DBO. 21. 1907.

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UNITED STATES JOSEPH JACOBS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Application filed December 21, 1907. Serial No. 407,514.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn JAooBs, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes-line sup ports or hangers, the object of the invention being to provide an improved device of this character which is somewhat simpler in construction and more easily attached and operated than are devices of this general character heretofore produced.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, the figure illustrates in full lines this improved device in position on a window casing, the dotted ines illustrating the position into which the device is swung when it is desired to place the wash on or remove it from the line.

The present improvement comprises a bracket and a pivotally supported arm. The bracket may be of any suitable form, but in its preferred form it comprises a body 2 provided with ears 3 adapted to be suitably fastened, as by means of screws 4 to the outside of the window casing, the inner end of the body having an outwardly turned flange 5 provided vmlth a projection or stud 6 efi'ective to maintain the pivoted arm 7 in its upright position. The arm is pivoted adjacent to its lower end below the stud to the flange 5 of the bracket, and is provided with a laterally extending guide member in the form of a bent arm or hook 8, which is preferably substantially S-shaped in form.

The major part of the arm extends above the pivot and is bent in such a manner at its upper end as to bring an overhanging portion 9 thereof above the guide portion at the lower end of said arm, between which bent portion and the arm is located a pulley 10.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the clothes line will pass over the pulley downwardly and under the guiding portion of the guide arm, so that the upper and. lower portions of the line are in substantial alinement when the clothes are hanging thereon and the arm is in its upright position, in which position it engages the stud or projection 6, which maintains the arm in such upright position. Nhen, however, it is desired to removeor place the wash upon the line, it is merely necessary to swing the arm from its vertical position downward into a horizontal position, which brings it into the room, so that the wash can be removed or placed thereon without the necessity of leaning out of the window to do this.

I am aware that patents have been obtained for devices of this general character in which an arm is mounted adjacent to its upper end for movement into a vertical position downwardly. But in those devices the upper and lower lines forming the clothes line are not held remotely separated from each other, as in my improvement, nor are those devices so easy of manipulation or as simply constructed and attached.

It will also be observed that in the present construction, when the arm is swung inwardly into the room to remove or place the wash on the line, the organization is such that the pulley carrying the rope will be in alinement with the pivotal point of the arm on its bracket, so that the arm will remain in place in its horizontal position against swinging upward or downward, and that when the arm is swung up ward into its vertical position the strain on the upper part of the arm will be equalized owing to the passage of the rope under the guide arm of the bracket.

I claim as my invention:

1. A clothesline hanger or support comprising a bracket adapted to be secured to a suitable support and having a stop, an arm pivoted adjacent to its lower end to said bracket below said stop and with which stop it engages when the arm is in its vertical position, and guiding devices carried by said arm and by means of which the lengths of line are spread far apart when the arm is in its vertical position.

2. A clothes-line hangeror support comprising a bracket adapted to be secured to a suitable support and having a stop, an arm pivoted adjacent to its lower end to said bracket below said stop and with which stop it engages when the arm is in its vertical position, and guiding devices carried by said arm, one comprising a pulley adjacent to the upper end of said arm and the other an S- shaped laterally extending member adjacent to the lower end of said arm and by means of which the lengths of line are spread far apart when the arm is in its vertical position.

3. A clothes-line hanger or support comprising a bracket adapted to be secured to a suitable support and having a flange provided with a stop, an arm pivotally secured to said flan e adjacent to the lower end of said arm and bfiow said stop and with which stop it engages when in its vertical position, said arm having at its upper end an overhangin portion, and a pulley pivoted between said overhanging portion and arm and also having at its lower end below said pivot a laterally extending guide arm and by means of which the lengths of line are spread far apart when the arm is in its vertical position.-

Dec. 10th, 1907.

Witnesses:

C. A. WEED, F. E. BOYCE.

JOSEPH JACOBS. 

